Your savings rate is the the key factor if you want to shape your finances, gain financial flexibility in your life, being able to invest and build up an ever growing passive income stream in order to reach Financial Independence in a reasonable time frame.
Month: February 2017
The day my portfolio dropped by 15 %
My path as a dividend growth investor
My first steps in the stock market go back to 1999, somewhere near the peak of the “Dot-Com Bubble” which left my investment portfolio consisting of two high tech stocks with a hefty book loss of over 50 % when the bubble eventually burst in spring 2001.
Quite an unpleasant and discouraging start as an investor, right?
Well, it turned out that these early experiences served me well.
I was kind of forced to take a long-term perspective and to become patient in order to successfully pursue my goal to building up a stock portfolio providing me with a reliable and ever growing passive income stream over time. Read more… »